Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Reckless Beginnings by Tina Hogan Grant Excerpt & Giveaway

Tammy
Mellows, a fourteen-year-old native of England, was shocked when her father and
troubled older sister, Donna, moved to the States.

With her family now
separated by divorce and divided by an ocean, Tammy felt helpless when she
learned Donna had run away and couldn’t be found.

Thanks to her father
insisting she stay behind in England to finish school, Tammy could do nothing
for the next three years but pray that Donna would be found safe.

When Tammy’s lifelong
dream of moving to the States was finally fulfilled, she had high hopes of
looking for Donna. But with no leads and faced with turmoil in her own life,
there wasn’t much Tammy could do.

After a forbidden
secret love affair and a catastrophic dispute with her father, Tammy eventually
meets Steven, settles down and has his child, only to discover he is a heroin
addict. Thrown into a life of drugs and violence. Shadowed by his addiction,
she becomes the silent and forgotten one. Living in fear of what Steven might
be capable of and struggling alone to provide for her young son.

What consequences might
she face if she leaves Steven? Is she ever going to find her sister alive? Will
she have enough courage to conquer the impossible challenges of her twisted
world and still come out on top?

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Excerpt One:

“What do you
mean she’s gone, John?”

Who was gone?
Tammy wondered.

Her mother
became angry. “She can’t just disappear, John! Someone must know where she is!”

Glued to the
railings, Tammy was dying to know who and what they were talking about.

Then her mother
began to cry hysterically while she held the phone tight and screamed into it,
“She’s still a child, John. She’s just seventeen. You should never have put her
in that home! She isn’t an object you can just discard because she’s in your
way. She’s your daughter!”

Tammy
remembered how her heart sank to the floor when she suddenly realized they were
talking about Donna. Her sister had run away and was now missing. She wanted to
race down the stairs and snatch the phone from her mother’s hands and ask her
father WHY? Why had he put her in that awful place?

Donna had
written a letter to Tammy and Jenny, telling them how much she hated being in
the home. How no one wanted her anymore and she was going to run away.
Frightened by what she had read, Tammy showed the letter to their mother. As
upset as she was by both the letter and the fact that Donna had written to her
sisters and not her, Rose never believed Donna would actually run away. “I’m
sure she’ll be okay. She just needs time to adjust. It’s all new to her. We
have to trust your father’s judgment. He said this would be good for her. I
have to believe that. She is a very troubled young girl and needs help,” her
mother had told her. But she had run away, and now no one knew where she was.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Tina Hogan
Grant was born in England and grew up in a small town on the Yorkshire Moors.
She is the youngest daughter of science fiction author, James P. Hogan. After
moving to California, she became a commercial lobster fisherwoman, fishing off
the coast of Southern California for ten years with her husband Gordon.

For fourteen
years, she’d had a notion of writing her debut novel “Reckless Beginnings”. But
it wasn’t until the sudden death of her father in 2010 and a battle with breast
cancer a year later that she made the decision to get it done. Seven years
later, she finally completed it. She is now working on a sequel titled,“Better Endings.”

She currently
resides with her husband in the small mountain community of Frazier Park in
Southern California. Together they enjoy anything that involves the outdoors,
fishing, hiking, kayaking and riding quads.